7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
21628 | To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
12189 | Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
7320 | Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A] |